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A plethora of literature has explored the experiences of BIPOC individuals in the psychotherapeutic encounter. Social psychoanalysis has specifically explored the importance of cultural attunement and sociopolitical context to psychotherapeutic interventions and conceptualizations. The following article delves into a Muslim Queer clinician-in-training encounter with a Queer Muslim patient. Despite some training programs emphasizing the importance of “diversity,” this clinician exposes how one is never immune to ideological misattunements and to practicing psychoanalytic innocence in the service of reproducing and maintaining cisheteropatriarchal, ableist, white notions of health. The clinician-in-training wrestles with feelings of incompetence; rather than tolerate the fragility imbued in this process, she becomes misattuned to the patient’s endeavors toward opacity and traumatophilic reclamation of being a Queer Muslim in America.